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Path will now allow its users to share photos, videos, and more on its private social network, from a wide range of new API partners. Building on the success of its Nike+ partnership for sharing fitness data, Path is announcing 13 new apps that will hook into its network and get a “Share on Path” button. Read More

Not everyone can be as obsessive about journaling as, say, a lovesick 14-year-old or Samuel Pepys, but that doesn’t mean you can’t try. That’s why Narrato is so interesting.
Created by a London-based team of Wayra graduates, Narrato allows you to enter notes, take photos and describe your feelings and mood in an app that is reminiscent of a version of Path that… Read More

Path is raising a $50 million Series C round at a $500 million post-money valuation. Sources tell us the company is still seeking a lead investor, the round is currently oversubscribed, and one of the investors in the round is “a strategic private investment group in Asia.”
This contradicts an earlier report from us that said the company was raising at a valuation as high as $1… Read More

Path is preparing to cross to the Windows Phone mobile platform — one of the more ‘private’ mobile OSes currently in play, with its marginal market share compared to the dominant duo of Android and iOS. Which sounds like a perfect fit for a private social network. Path co-founder and CEO, Dave Morin, confirmed to TechCrunch the network is “coming to Windows Phone… Read More

We’re hearing from multiple sources that private social network Path is raising a new round of funding that could value the company as high as $1 billion. According to one source, the company is in the process of seeking between $75 million to $100 million in financing and is aiming for the aforementioned number as a valuation. Read More

Path’s 2012 included a major hiccup when it was discovered in February last year that the app uploaded user address books in their entirety to its servers. The company quickly responded by deleting the data and apologizing for the transgression, but the damage was done: The FTC levied charges against the startup, and today the government body has announced the results of those proceedings… Read More

For the latest episode of my Foundation series, I headed over to the Path office to sit down with founder Dave Morin.
Dave talks about getting his start in student marketing at Apple, and reflects that focus is one of the most important things he learned there. He goes on to describe his time at Facebook, where an intense focus on product utility set the product up for long-term growth. Dave… Read More

Dave Morin, CEO and founder of Path, today likened Facebook to a Chevy, and Path to a BMW or Audi, as he attempted to draw out the differences between his privacy-focused social network and the one that is now publicly-traded and recently passed 1 billion users (and is his former stomping ground). Speaking at the DLD conference currently underway in Munich, Morin admitted that while people… Read More

Dave Morin, founder and CEO of of Path, is literally on a path towards making the private social network into a freemium business along the lines of Evernote. In an interview with TechCrunch, he said we can expect to see changes this year to the ‘personal network’ which famously limits you to your ‘real’ 150 friends and family.
He said that since launching the new… Read More

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A brand new year is upon us, and it’s time to start thinking about the changes you want to make. But it can be difficult to follow through on New Year’s Resolutions, especially without any help or support.
But nine times out of ten, there’s an app for that. We pulled seven of Time Magazine’s list of the top ten most broken New Years Resolutions, and determined which… Read More

With its latest update, Path is adding an important new feature — the ability to search through all of your content, as well as your friends’ content.
Co-founder and CEO Dave Morin told me yesterday that even though he’s described Path as a journaling app in the past (when Path unveiled its big revamp last year, he said it was a for users to “capture all the… Read More

Path’s growth trajectory is leading it to Asia: CEO Dave Morin said that people in Japan and Korea were behind the mobile social network’s second wave of new users after the release of Path 2.0, that China is the app’s second-largest market after the U.S. and that it’s adding more users in Asia than it is in Western markets. Now Path is capitalizing on all that by… Read More

It’s that time of year to be festive and spooky, carve up some pumpkins and get the candy ready for the neighborhood kids. One uber-geek Ashley Mayer, decided to take festivity to an all new level, tied in with her love of a particular social app — Path.
Yes, it’s Halloween, let’s get geekily creative. Read More

Remember when Path was super quiet with your nice group of fifty people? That’s all going to change now. As I broke at TNW, Path has been tinkering with the notion of importing items from other social networks. The feature has now been released in the latest update to the app.
You can now import Facebook status updates, Instagram photos and Foursquare check-ins right to your Path stream. Read More

If you’re a Path user, you know that you can share the movies that you’re watching with your intimate group of friends and family. It’s not a feature that I’ve used a lot, even though I’m a huge movie freak. I can safely say that I’ve seen at least 50% of the movies ever released. That’s not really scientific, but Path has released some scientific… Read More

At the time that Path was first introduced as a new social network for mobile devices, there were already many options for connecting with friends, family, and coworkers. So why build another? Path CEO and co-founder Dave Morin told me in an interview backstage at TechCrunch Disrupt that he and his cofounders were looking for ways to connect users closest to one another — and building… Read More

“50 is the perfect number of friends” Dave Morin found when looking at the usage of his personal networking app Path, as he explained in his talk at TechCrunch Disrupt SF. Add more than that and people start asking to be able to share to certain subsets of friends — the exact privacy controls that confuse and slow down other social networks.
Read on for Morin’s… Read More

If you use Tumblr to host a blog with a custom domain name, you might notice that it’s not functioning properly. That’s apparently the case for companies like Airtime, Pinterest and Path, as I’ve come to find.
I reached out to Tumblr and received the following response. Read More

Admittedly, I have a negative bias towards overhyped startups. If a company gets a lot of attention before they do anything significant, I’m less likely to try their product and when I do, less likely to have a positive feeling about it. I realize this is a weakness I need to overcome, but it’s the way my mind works.
There are few better examples over the past few years of… Read More

In response to Facebook’s ever-expanding social universe and the success of mobile-focused networks like Instagram, Dave Morin and company have turned Path into a more personal, mobile-centric social network.
Most of the life-sharing that happens on Path takes place at home — among family and close friends. And while some users may speak one language away from home or at work… Read More